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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
THE WEATHER BUREAU.

General Greeley's Annual Report = He
Makes Some Recommendations Fa-
yor of Bringing Carrier-Pigeons INTO
Servicc-Why the Weather Forecasts
Have in Many Instances Been Unsatis-
factory-River and Flood Prognostica-
ti0ns.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. General A. W.
Greedy. Chief Signal Otncer, in his annual
report calls attention to the old, cunber-
some method of signaling III use in the
army, and the need Of improved methods
and more general construction of army
men therein. He calls attention to its
va-ue as shown in General Niles
Indian campaign, and suggests that
competent instructors for this purpose be
stationed at Forts Leayenworth, Monroe and
Riley, and thinks earrier=pigeons should be
trained for carrying intelligence from war;
vessels, and thinks in that way that news
from Havana and the Windward Islands
could be sent to Key West
Concerning weather forecasts he says he
has teen unable so far to accede to the Ser
geant's request to furnish special predictions
for cities towns and corporations. owing TO
the short time elapsing between the receipt
OF telegraph reports and the sending out of
general predictions. He hopes, however,
menls which, in addition to providing the
Northwest with more ACCURATE warnings of
the coming cold waves, to also furnish the
great centers of population special predic-
tons The increase in the length OF hours
In daily indications has, it is sid, naturally
resulted in reduced percentage of vertical
ton. $3.50 fa
The general percentage of successful in
dic4tions during the year has been: For
weather, 74.75; wind, 90 /; temperature.
"a 4; G neral average OF 1879 OF the cold
wave signals sent out 1876 per cent Were
verified This result is not satisfactory to
the Chief Signal Officer, but the reasons
for it have been stated above. &
renewal Of the West Indian service,
in order to secure 'no'ice of coming
hurricanes, is suggested During the year
there have been 1910 storm signals of all
kinds ordered of which 1854, or 6S. 8 per
cent have been verified This percentage
is the lowest for. years for the reasons
above. The bureau has in view the early
display Of signals, which will not only indi-
cate whether a storm will be light or
severe, but whether winds are to come from
a special quarter and whether the storm
center is approaching or has passed a
station. sgHttfN
Touching river and flood reports General
Greedy says it seems to him that such sys-
tenn of river and rainfall stations might be
established as would enable practiced midi
cations officers to predict the continuance
OF any great flood many days in advance
He closes with plea for the regular organ
ization of the corps comprising, besides the
Chief Signal officer, one Major, six Captains,
six First Lieutenants, two professors, and
two junior professors, with civilian cleri-
cal force.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGTON.

DURING the seven DAYS ended on the 14th
there were 1S2 business failures IN the
United States, against 135 the previous
seven days. Most of the business disasters
were reported from the West and South.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS in his annual
report on the 14th to the Secretary of the
Interior, speaks of the present wasteful
and Thanksgiving system of DISPOSAL Of
the public lands, and intimates that there is
much room for Improvement in the laws
upon the subject
The cotton crop of the United States this
year would, it was estimated on the 18th,
amount to 6, $4,000 bales against G, 5O5,-
600 bales for 1885.
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the l 9TH aggregated
81 ,0S6. 3O1, 843 against 81, 038, 968, 169, the
previous week. As compared with the cor
responding week of 1886, the decrease
amounts to 8. 0 per cent
The wool-clip of the I'm ted States for
this year was on the 18th valued at $40
100000 and the number OF sheep esti-
mated at 40, 600, 900, an increase of 5, 0O0,-
600 since the last census
THE Territories of Montana Dakota, New
Mexico, Washington and Utah would, it was
stated in Washington on the 18th, all seek
admission as States at the next session of
Congress-
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TIE EAST.


The fourth game of baseball for the
worlds championship, played on the 18th
at Pittsburgh, resulted: Detroit, s; St Louis,
0. Detroit has won three of the four games
played.
THE loss of the fishing schooner Thomas
L. Parr, of Gloucester, Mass, with her crew
OF fourteen men. was reported on the 18Th.
DIR. DAVID r. KERR, editor of the United
PreSbUerid" and one Of the foremost preach
ers of his church, expired at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 18th, aged seventy years
THE fifth game of base-ball for the worlds
championship, played on the 18th at Brook
lyn, resulted: st. Louis, 5; Detroit, 3.
On the 18th the health authorities of New
York issued notice that there was no dan
ger from the cholera which was brought to
this country on the steamer Alesia
The Baltic cotton mill, at Baltic, Conn,
was destroyed by fire early on the morning
of the 14th. The loss was placed at ST.
$50, 900, with insurance of S207, 000.
The Democrats of the Twenty-ifth dis
trict of New York ON the 18th nominated
Alexander A Davis, of Syracuse, for Con-
gress
1T was discovered ON the 10Th that WILL
lam Rogers who had served nearly five
y y
the Maine penitentiary, was innocent
THE sixth base ball game for the worlds
championship between the St Louis and
the Detroit clubs, played in New York on the
10Th, was won by the latter, the SCORE
standing to O.
In the Second districtof Rhode Island, on
the 18th the Republicans nominated War
rem A. Arnold for Congressman
ANT1 mn finished bI1jIdinOr in NaY1 VarJ- orr
fell ON the 18th and five workmen were
killed and about dozen injured, several of
them seriously.
In the vicinity of Freeland, Pa, there was
great suffering on the 18th among the strik-
ing cOal-miners, which it was feared would
lead to deeds of violence. The men are
foreigners of the worst type.
WILLIAM HERBsT, former president of the
First National Bank of Glen Rock, Pa, and
his son, were on the 18th convicted of en-
bezzling the banks money and sentenced
to five years Imprisonment each
By the capsizing of q skif ON the 18th In
the river at Foxburg, Pa, J. and H. Neville
(brothers) We're drowned
THE Kent House and number of cot
tages OF Lake View, near Jamestown, N. Y,
were destroyed by fire on the 17th Loss,
$15O,00O
JAMES O'CoNNELI's dwelling at Peabody,
Mass, was burned on the 17ih, and two of
his children, James, aged four, and Mary,
aged two years, were suffocated.
CHARLES DICKENS, son of the well-known
author, arrived in New York from London
on the 18th. He will give readings through
the country from selections from his fathers
books.
The seventh game in the series for the
worlds baseball championsh p, played on
the 18th at Philadelphia, resulted: Detroit
3; st Louis l. Detroit has thus far won
five of the seven games.
The purchase of the New York Graphic BY
asyndicate of wealthy Republicans was an
nounced on the 18th
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WEST AND SOuTH.

A WEATHER bureau for the Northwest has
been established at St Paul
AN express train on the 18th dashed into
the rear of an accommodation train at Rock
Creek, Mo-, two cars telescoping. Awoman
was killed and several other passengers
were badly injured
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Missouri at
a meeting in St Louis on the 18th sustained
the law forbidding lodges to accept as mem
bers any person engaged in the saloon
business
THOMAS S. BALDWIN made balloon ascen-
sion at Quincy, ILL.,, on the 18th, and when
over one mile high he jumped from the air.
ship and reached the ground in safety by
means Of parachute
AT Clarksville, Ga, Charles Edwards (col-
ored) was hanged for the murder of William
Echols last May.
The boiler of a monster saw-mill engine
exploded at Centerville, w. Va, on the 18th,
tearing everything loose in the neghbor-
hood, killing three men and wrecking the
mill completely
The National Industrial Reform Associa-
tion in convention on the 14th at Spring.
field, Ill, adopted platform which includes
prohibition and universal suffrage. opera
tion of the railroads and telegraph lines by
the Government, and calls for the disfran-
chisement of all persons guilty of corrupt
ing the franchise A National Committee
was appointed, one for each State and Ter
ritory.
j. G. MCCALL oil and gas well contrac-
tor, and William Flaughner, were burned to
death in planning mill confagration at
Cygnet, O., ON the 18th
AT Memphis Tenn, three men were
drowned on the 18th by the capsizlng of a
boat
A NEW Stock Yards Company was organ
ICED in Chicago ON the 14th with capital
of 100000
CAROLINE KNowLToN- died on the 14th
from injuries received in the recent fire in
the asylum for the insane at Newburg, O.,
making the eighth victim.
IN the lumber district Of Cincinnati on the
18th, a fire destroyed a large amount of
lumber and number of houses adjacent to
the yards Loss, $I50,000
HE home of Rev. Thomas Ryan, a Metho-
q st minister of Walton, w. Va, was entered
by burglars on the 10Th and after securing
several hundred dollars one of them shot
Mr.. Ryan dead A pursuing party shot one
of the thieves dead and lynched the other
TYPHOID FEVER was on the15th said to be
raging at Iron Mountain. Mich. There were
over one hundred people down with the
disease and from one taseven funerals oc-
CURED daily.
On the 18th the grand jury at San Fran
cisco found an Indictment for murder against
Geronimo, the Apache chief.
JESSE LEE HALL, Indian agent at the Kio-
wa, Comanche and Wichita agency in the
Indian Territory, being appointed in 1886.
was on the 18th discovered to be a defaulter
to the extent of nearly $4,000 in Govern
ment and Indian funds.
THE prize of 800 offered by the Chicago
Inter Ocean to any person placing the po-
sitions of the eight League clubs at the
close of the baseball season was not, it
was stated by that paper on the 10Th, won
by any of the 4,2S5 guessers
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, being refused per-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
LATER.

The eighth game for the worlds baseball
championship, played on the 18th at Bos-
ton, resulted: Detroit, 8; St Louis, q OF
the seven games to be played ST. Louis
must win six to secure the championship
The Timothy Brothers, dealers in dry
goods at Nashville, Tenn, failed on the 18th
for 100000
GENERAL KILPATRIGK'S remains were in
TERED in "The Heroes Corner" of the little
cemetery at West Point on the 18th with
IN litary honors.
AT crossing near Ronk's Station, Pa,
a buggy containing Mrs. Jacob Stelzfus and
Mrs, Barbara Stelzfus was struck by train
on the 18th and both women were killed
AN equestrian statue of General Meade
was unvailed on the 18th at Paramount
Park, Philadelphia The military parade
was of an imposing character
On the 18th two hundred and eighty Nor
mon converts from Liverpool, bound for
Salt Lake City, We're landed at New York.
The National Rubber Company of Provi-
dence, R l., owning the most extensive fac
tory of the kind in the world, failed on the
18th for 100000
The most destructive fire known for
many years was raging on the 18th along
the northern ridge of the Blue Mountains.
near Carlisle, Pa Much valuable timber
had been destroyed and the loss would be
very heavy.
The French steamship Britannia, which
arrived in New York on the 18th from Mar
settles and Naples had four cases of cholera
on board
The schooner Herman Babson, which
arrived at Gloucester Mass, on Jhe 18Th
from Grand banks, reported falling in with
the French fishing S oop ST Pierre and
finding ten men drowned in the cabin and
the vessel water-logg ID.
Four men employed in the mines of the
Hudson Iron Company at West Stock
bridge, Mass, fell 125 feet down shaft
on the 18th and were fatally injured
A DISPATCH of the 18th from Province
town, Mass, reports the loss of the fishing
ing schooner Rebecca Nickerson on the
banks with her crew of nineteen men All
the rest OF the feet had returned safely.
HE Leipsic Discount Company. a bank
ing-house at Leipsic, Germany, with cap
ltal OF 5000, 600 marks, failed on the 18th
IN consequence of unlawful speculation
The National convention of Employing
Printers, Representing twenty three of the
leading cities in the country, began its ses-
slons In Chicago on the 18th, and decided to
Ioluse e1Ie ueInsinO OF the 1nleTnatlonal
Union for nine-hour day.
2 i WARoIoN, manager of the CONNER
cal Collecting Agency at Cincinnati, was on
the 18th found TO be defaulter in the sum
OF S2o, GOO He had gone to Canada.
The President and bis party were re-
!ceIved by Governor Gordon at the capitol
IN Atlanta on the 18th, and were then
driven to the exposition grounds at Pied
mont Park, where an address of welcome
was delivered by 81. ", Grady, to which the
President responder A reception took
place in the evening
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
THE INDUSTRIAL REFoRMERs.
Conclusion of Their Convention at Spring.
field, TIl.-ResOlutions Adopted-GeOrge
Francis Train Makes q Speech.

Conclusion of Their Convention at Spring.
field, TH.-ResOIutions Adopted-GeOrge
Francis. Train Makes a Speech.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Oct 15.-The National
Industrial reform party reconvened at 10
o'clock yesterday morning, but adjourned
until after dinner to give the Committee on
Resolutions time to report 1t was late in
the afternoon when the final plank was
adopted A synopsis of the platform is as
follows: ~..
1t declares in favor of the Government issu-
ing $780, 01,0)0 of legal tender money to re-
deem all outstanding bonds; providing for
postal savings banks: all public lands to be re-
served for homesteads for actual settlers; the
Government to control the telegraph, postal
and telephone services; all unimproved lands
to be taxed 90 per cent. of actual value;
against foreigners holding lands in the
country; all mortgages being taxed on
their face value; abolition of the liquor traffic;
woman suffrage; no foregnism In American
politics; pensions for all soldiers and those de-
pendent upon them; no corruption of the ballot
box; Government providing homes for all the
homeless; all public servants elected by the
people; prohibition of gambling and pooling by
corporations; the Government paying SO to
each citizen of every township in the Union
from the National Treasury, which money shall
be spent by, local boards in public improve
ments; international arbitration, and all Ma
tional, State, municipal and township laws to
be submitted to vote Of the people before they
become operative.
The convention then adjourned, to meet
again in February, 1888, in Washington.
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The KouTs HORROR.

The Verdict of the Coroner Holds the
Train Dispatcher and Engineer Dorsey
Responsible.
VALPARAISO, Ind, Oct. 15-Coroner Leth-
erman has rendered his verdict in the Kouts
disaster. He declares that the accident was
the result Of the negligence of the train dis
patcher of the Chicago & Atlantic road in
permitting passenger train No. II to attempt
to run with disabled engine, knowing
that fast freight train No. 48 was but few
minutes behind it; and by the negligence
or carelessness of Engineer Dorsey, of
freight train No. 48,runn;ng his engine at
high rate Of speed through the fog, know
ing that passenger train No II was but
Short distance in advance of his train witha
disabled engine
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE Mexican House of Deputies on the
18th passed the bill making the President
eligible for second term. 1t had previous
ly been approved by the Senate.
A REPORT received from Mr. Caldwell
American Consul General at Cairo, Egypt,
on the 18th says that six thousand native
pupils were in attendance in schools in the
Nile valley, established by American mis-
sionaries
THROUGHOUT Central Mexico slight shocks
Of earthquake were felt on the 18th
WILLIAM O'BRIEN's organ, United ireland,
of Dublin, on the 18th published six col
umns of reports of various league meetings,
and Observed: This is how coercion ter
rorizes the Irish"
The discovery of rich deposits of gold
near Port AIDE aide, Australia, was reported
by Consul J. w. Smith to the State Depart
nent ON the 18th.
AT Paris on the 18th General Boulanger
placed under arrest for the period of
thirty days for insolenee in replying to the
interrogations of the Minister of War.
1T was discovered ON the 18th in the City
of Mexico that extensive forgeries had been
made upon the Government, one alone
amounting to $4,000.
The loss of the British ship Monarch, en-
IOuGo 10 NEW DIX, WAS reported ON GnG
18th, the captain and eleven of the crew
perishing.
ROBERT NEIL's boarding house at Lake
Edward, Quebec, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th, and Thomas Landus, William
Buchan and George Section, dodgers, were
burned to crisp
In Barcelona, Spain, forty persons We're
arrested on the 18th charged with extensive
frauds upon the postal authorities Several
prominent officials were implicated
The London police and the unemployed
working men of that city had conflict ON
the 18th, during which several policemen
We're injured and nine arrests were made.
The dedication of the Shakespeare me-
mortal fountain, presented to the city of
stratford upon-Avon, Eng, by Nh. George
w. Childs, of Philadelphia, took place on
the 18th, the occasion being made holi-
day.
The death of Gustav Robert Kirchoff the
eminent natural scientist and discoverer of
the spectroscope, occurred III London on
the 18th
THE recent forest fires in Canada are said
to have redeemed thousands Of acres Of
swamp land
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THE TERRITORIES,
Half a Dozen of Them win Apr
Admission Into the IIninn This w

Half Dozen of Them win Apply for
Admission Into the Union This Winter
WASHINGTON, Oct 12-There will be
more earnest effort to secure the admiss on
of Territories as States this winter than til ere
has been for some years Delegate Toole.
of Montana, who is here, thinks that Mon
tana, Dakota, New Mexico and Washington
Territory viii seek admission, and he pre
diets that in an omnibus bill they viii
accomplish I'll cir object He does not
add Utah 10 the list of Territories
which viii apply for Statehood. but it
is evident that Utah win be one of the
most earnest applicants The new move
ments as to polygamy will have strong sup
port
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-21

MRS XAVIER GRAMER, who left her
home in Brooklyn to explore the wild
West with Il cowboy, has written let
ter to her deserted spouse in which she
narrates the thrilling story of her adj
ventures While on q buffalo hunt she
was separated from her companions,
and fell into the hands of band of
Snake Indians, after having had leg
broken by fall from her horse. The
medicine man. of the tribe set her
broken limb, and the chief wished to
place her in his household, but she
managed to escape and made her way
to Il cowboy camp.
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QUICKLY AVENGED.

and Plumber His House-A Posse Pur-
sues Them and a Desperate Fight Oc-
ours. in Which One of the AIiscreants Is
Killed and the Other Lynchet..
WALTON, W. Va, Oct. 17.-Robbers en-
tered the house of Rev Thomas Ryan, a
lethodist minister OF this city, and after
hey had secured several hundred dollars
one of them shot Mr. Ryan dead
WALTON, W. Va, Oct ia lively fight
took place Saturday between the murderers
OF the Methodist minister, Ryan, who was
HI led near here, and officers and citizens
who were pursuing them. One of the muir
derers was killed and another captured and
lynched Five of the attacking party We're
wounded.
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mission on the 10Th to lecture on the An
archists at Springfield Ill, departed for ST

mission on the 18th to lecture on the An
archists at Springfield, Ill. departed for ST
Louis
CHAUNCEY S. BARNES, sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in the Michigan City Qndl
penitentiary sixteen years ago for the muir
der of his sweetheart, was pardoned by Gov
ernor Gray on the 10th
AT New Orleans, La, thirty-fve houses
We're destroyed by fire On the 10Th
STEPHEN ". RAwsoN, a well-known Chica-
go banker, while leaving the Third Presby-
terrain Church on the 18th was probably IA
tally shot by his step-son, William Stay
maker, aged seventeen years. His assailant
was taken to jail The shooting grew out
Of the troubles between Mr.. Rawson and his
wife, from whom he was seeking a divorce
FIRES on the 18th destroyed six business
houses in Pulaski, Tenn, causing loss of
$50, 900. Twenty-seyen horses persisted in
a stable Ff
Two BLOCKS of buildings, including the
CARTE office, at Park River, D. T., We're
burned ON the 15tA by incendiaries. Two
of the fire-bugs were captured
ERNEST SMITH, an express messe niger, shot
and killed two train robbers On the 10Th
near Ell Paso, Tex, who were trying to rob
his car.
ROBERT GILES, the colored murderer Of
Albert Williams, was hanged on the 18th at
Dallas, Tex He confessed on the scaffold.
In a general fight on the 10th near River
side, Tex, one Mexican was killed, two
fatally injured, three negroes seriously and
a number slightly wounded Most of the
rioters were intoxicated.
In his annual report issued on the 18th
Governor Zulick, of Arizona, estimated the
population of the Territory at 10000, an
increase of nearly $4,000 over the census
of 1880. The aggregate assessed valuation
of taxable property for 1887 is $26, 3d.
800, an increase of nearly Sc, 900, 600 over
1886
THE Governor of Utah, in his annual re-
port on the 18th, estimates the population
Of the Territory at nearly 200, 900 and the
assessed taxable valuation of property at
$35, $50, 800. He is opposed to the admis-
sion of the Territory as State because Of
the additional power it would give the Nor
mons
THE International Military encampment
in Chicago was put into the hands Of a re-
ceiver on the 18th.
SOME boys while playing upon the river
bank ON the 18th near Peru, Ind. dug up
wooden box containing nearly half bushel
of nickels '9>
THE Chicago lumber firm of Charnley &
Lovedall failed on the 18th for $112, 600
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BLOoDTHIRsTY WGILANTEs.

They, Lynch Another Man in West Vir-
ginia for Completely in the Robbery and
Murder of Rev. MIR. Ryan.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, Oct 19.-News was
brought here yesterday morning that Dan
Cunningham the Eureka detective who was
charged with having been the instigator of
the robbery of Rev. Mr.. Ryan in Roane
and Jackson counties, was caught Monday
and lynched 1t is certain that there were
only seven engaged in the murder and rob
bery of Rev. Mr.. Ryan, Of this number the
vigilantes have disposed of Coon. George
Duff, Jr, Bob Duff and Drake.
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POSTAL FINANCES.
Indications of Large Increase in Rev
onnoS nul.inp the

Indications of a Large Increase in Rev.
enues During the Year.
WASHINGTON, Oct 10-The compilation
of the fiscal statistics of the post-office has
progressed far enough to indicate that the
deficit for the fiscal year 1887 will not ex-
coed So, 800, 600 For the fiscal year 1886
the deficit was nearly $7,000,000. In his
last annual report the Postmaster General
did not hold out the hope that the deficit
would fall much below $4,000, 600 If, as
now seems probable, the deficit is only
So, 500, 000 it ind Gates that the revenues
increased beyond those of the previous year
much more than the experience of the de-
partment warranted the Postmaster General
year ago in anticipating
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If the report from Tucson, A. T., is
trne, q little light is shed upon the re-
cent Indian troubles in the far South
west. 1t is stated that the United
States grand jury has discovered that
AN organized band of cattle thieves,
with which prominent citizens are con-
nected, have been stealing cattle from
the Indians on the San Carlos reserva.
ton during the last year.